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Birdland

Jeffreys, Leila2015
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Fine art photographer Leila Jeffreys captures the beauty and diversity of some of our most colourful and elegant feathered friends. In Birdland, Australian fine-art photographer Leila Jeffreys presents us with a bird-watching experience like no other, drawing birds out from their leafy shadows and airy territories and presenting them to us with the skill and intricate detail of a portrait painter. The result is a stunning encounter with some of the world's most beautiful birds. On display are fine feathers of all types-eagles in burnished battle armor, cotton candy-pink cockatoos, owls in spangled evening wear, and the finches and parrots who couldn't settle for just one or two colours, so chose the whole palette instead. Captured in a moment of stillness, Jeffreys's feathered sitters reveal qualities and features that invite human projection. Meet the sociable gang-gang cockatoos Commander and Mrs. Skyring, always up for a soir e; the dignified and kingly black kite Fenrick; and the adorably gamine Pepper, a southern boobook owl with impossibly huge eyes and irresistibly cute skinny legs.
Main title:
Birdland / Leila Jeffreys.
Imprint:
Sydney : Hachette Australia, 2015.
Collation:
188 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 32 cm.
ISBN:
97804733338369780733631061
Dewey class:
778.9328598
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
291376
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
Brighton LibraryAdult Non Fiction - Animals598 JEFAvailable
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